There is an inherent kinship between architecture and clay. The work of an architect does not stray too far from the work of a ceramicist; they are the creators of a vessel that deals with spatial qualities, scale, and relationships with the user.
Clay has proven itself as a valuable material through its artistic and utilitarian uses in the past. But the limitations of the material have not been reached, as the prevalence of digital design and fabrication methods has opened new doors for the use of clay in the architectural realm. This thesis aims to explore clay through digital methodologies at the smaller, modular unit scale.
This proposal in Yokohama, Japan, celebrates clay as an art form and shows how clay can be digitally fabricated and manipulated to create new experiences of natural phenomena, resulting in an architectural vessel for earthen materials, water, light, shadow, and the user.
